Blue Book Pages

Monday, October 4, 2010

Preparing for NaNoWriMo 2010

It being the first full week of October, they've renewed the sign-ups for National Novel Writing Month, of course.

The deal remains the same: 50,000 words over 30 days of November. While 50,000 words seem like a lot, it more often doesn't complete the story the novel ought to tell so most writers will need to go way past that.

My first successful trip to 50,000 was last year's NaNo. Problem was, the novel was barely half-way completed, and without a full novel sitting there in my lap ready for editing and fine-tuning, I quickly lost interest in getting it truly done.

This time is different. Because this is also the first time I had any genuine success with the earlier 3-Day Novel contest. Wherein I got 30,000 words done in just three days. 10,000 words a day per average (it was more like 5,000 words each the first two days and then a massive 20,000 rush job on Day Three). I know now the effort needed to get that much writing done in a single day. And as long as I ascertain the distractions I'll face, I am pretty sure now I can get the NaNo's 50,000 word count with ease.

That means the REAL objective I have this NaNoWriMo is this: get a full novel completed, and well in time to be able to edit the rough draft. Something to finally submit to a publisher.